Eagerly U. S. editors once played up cables from Imperial Austria, hinted daringly the senile eccentricities of Kaiser Franz, frankly glorified U. S. maidens privileged to be presented at his Court, and got out screaming extras when the suspicious, hidebound old Emperor was finally tricked into taking his first automobile ride by Wilhelm II.
Today however Austria is only a republic, and therefore when the Cabinet at Vienna fell last week, most U. S. editors reacted as though a pin had dropped. Tucked away on the tenth page of the omnivorous New...
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